erminette

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English

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Etymology

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From ermine +‎ -ette.

Noun

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erminette (countable and uncountable, plural erminettes)

  1. (dated) The fur of a white rabbit, sheared to resemble ermine.
    • 1915, Evelyn May Clowes Wiehe, The Rose of Youth (page 12)
      But Teddy knew too much of the fur at "Finney's"; the coney-seal, the sable-dyed-squirrel, the erminettes, the beaverines; []